LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Catamaran
One cat twice HM COASTGUARD informed Coxswain Thomas Cocking of St Ives lifeboat station at noon on Saturday August 16, 1980, that a small catamaran being sailed singlehanded had capsized two miles east of the station. Coxswain Cocking made...
Velocity
PORTHDINLLAEN.—On the 24th March, during a heavy gale from the N., accompanied by snow showers, the schooner Velocity, of Nefyn, bound from Silloth to Nefyn, with coal, /while at anchor in Porthdinllaen Bay, was observed to show a signal of...
Emily
On the 29th March the Life-boat Mark Lane was again called out, a small lugger, the Emily, of Gorleston, with two men on board, being observed with her mast and sail over the side. It was evident that she was not under control, herrudder, it...
Alfred
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress having been observed at the end of the breakwater, the Life-boat Thomas Fielden was launched at 5 A.M. on the 10th January, in a strong S.W. gale and a heavy sea and found the schooner Alfred stranded on the...
None (15)
CHILD TO HOSPITAL Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.25 p.m. on 11 th October, 1965, the secretary of the hospital board told the honorary secretary that there was a child on the Isle of Sanday in need of urgent hospital treatment. The life-boat The...
A Dinghy (4)
Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 5.5 on the afternoon of the 31st of May, 1959, the honorary secretary was informed that a sailing dinghy was adrift in Beaumaris Bay and needed help. At 5.25 the life- boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched in...
Mr C E Link
Mr. Charles Ernest Link, who in 1963 received the highest award the R.N.L.I.
can make to an honorary worker, appointment as Honorary Life Governor, died on 29th July, 1969. For many years he worked tirelessly for the...
Category: Obituaries
Vale of Conway
During a gale of wind on the 3rd May, the smack Vale of Gonway, of Port Dinorwic, was seen in a disabled state at some distance from the land, off the south end of the Isle of Whithorn, in Wigtonshire. The Life-boat Charley Peek "was...
Crocodile
RAMSGATE—On the 6th January the Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steamtug Aid, left the harbour at 3.30 A.M., in a strong N.E. breeze with snow squalls and a heavy sea, signal guns having been fired from the Goodwin Sands. The tug and...
Sunlight
On the 15th of January, 1953, the Thurso life-boat rescued the crew of eleven of the steam trawler Sunlight, of Aberdeen, which was listing heavily at the time of the rescue. For a full account of this service and of the rewards given see...